Is English Media Overreacting to Pardew’s Latest Altercation?

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

5:53pm Monday, March 10th, 2014

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The English media have reacted strongly to Newcastle manager Alan Pardew’s latest altercation on the touchline, and we wonder if the media have been over-reacting just a little bit. with some calling for him to be out of football altogether for the rest of the season.

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Is English Media Overreacting To Pardew's Latest Touchline Altercation?

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Welbeck leaving would be similar to Sturridge leaving Chelsea so around £12 million.

If Welbeck have similar development he would be an excellent signing.

We need homegrown players, and I can see Man U wanting to sell Welbeck if the get in one of Falcao, Mandžuki?, Benteke, Michu, D Costa, A.Ramos, Lukaku, Mario Gomez, Alexis Sanchez, Jackson Martinez and maybe even Remy and Suarez.

It sells toothpaste, skin cream, holidays and bog rolls so why not. The problem is when they start crusading and politicians start hopping on the spin gravy train.

On that Doncaster game, I took a visitor from Canada there and was a good half hour late thanks to that blasted tart Jordan doing a book signing in the metro. I wondered why all the glimpses faced and quiet until half time when I finally cracked and asked if there was a score, found out we were poor blue for a goal down. Carroll’s goal was a cracking left leg volley I think which lit the place up. Still a canny day after all. Blasted tart Jordan though. 🙂

Of course it’s an overreaction. In football what Pardew did was a headbutt – the very same action we saw from Remy shortly before – but in the real world it’s called a “movement”. The whole thing is ridiculous but the FA will want to make an example out of him.

@Sazzer: Carrying on from that video and bringing it around the discussion, I noticed the Metro decided to go with the headline “Hunt owns up to diving”… it was clearly a bloody trip. He caught his foot, went over, and then did the right thing (something we don’t see too often these days).

@toonking: I think some of the recent posters have contributed to that. I’ve seen a lot of the old names vanishing because of some of the newer posters.

Why oh why would any Nufc fan want Welbeck any where near our club. He would command top dollar as he’s English…..10 mill+ I would have thought. Ba would cost half that and be available for similar wages.

It’s a fact that whole medias love the scandals… but how they overreacting in this case? If this was the first pardew’s stupidity by the touchline you can speak about “overreacting”… but since this is his third it’s insane to speak about “overreacting”… and this third time is for a year and a half.

Or you say they are overreacting because they still respond of pardew’s stupidity after all those mistakes.

Am I the part of the cause of people deserting the blog does anyone think? If so I would stand down rather than spoiling it on here. I could even give up my Official Blog Hobbit position (sob). It was all meant in fun but several have said I’m not funny. Hmmm. Difficult and embarrassing. Nobody can suit everyone’s sense of humour.

So when Mylor grabs AP & throws him to one side, AP needs to put on his Gandhi/MLKing and Jesus personality in hte middle of the battle. Not an easy thing to do. when a burgler breaks into a home, and you wake up, you have no idea if you will fight or take flight. Same thing here. I’m surprised the LMA does not enter a friend of AP opinion on behalf of all managers who from now on will be in harms way when some clogger staggers into their technical area. Don’t forget Mylor was drewn back for an overhand haymaker unitl Goufron got in the way. IMHO, he should be on the hook, especially afrter his corner flag head but.

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